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Esteban de Perea (or Estevan de Peréa) was a Spanish Franciscan monk who undertook missionary work in New Mexico, a province of New Spain between 1610 and 1638. At times he was in conflict with the governors of the province. He has been called the "Father of the New Mexican Church". ==Origins== Esteban de Perea was born in Villanueva del Fresno, in Extremadura, Spain near the Portuguese border. Both his parents were Portuguese and came from a region that was home to many Jews. The conquest of the Emirate of Granada, with its large populations of Moslems and Jews, had been completed in 1492. Those who refused to convert to Christianity had been deported from Spain. However, the church was suspicious that some converts remained true to Jewish beliefs in private. In 1629 the Mexican Inquisition conducted a thorough inquiry into Perea's "purity of blood". Two witnesses testified that his mother's family was "tainted with new Christian blood", but the Franciscans chose to ignore this evidence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Esteban de Perea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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